James S. Green

James Stephen Green (28 February 1817-19 January 1870) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 3) from 4 March 1847 to 3 March 1851 (succeeding James Hugh Relfe and preceding John Gaines Miller) and a US Senator from 12 January 1857 to 4 March 1861 (succeeding David Rice Atchison and preceding Waldo P. Johnson).

Biography
James Stephen Green was born in Rectortown, Fauquier County, Virginia in 1817, the brother of Martin E. Green, and he moved to Missouri in 1838 and became a lawyer in Canton two years later. He attended his state's 1845 constitutional convention, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1847 to 1851 and in the US Senate from 1857 to 1861. From 1853 to 1854, he also served as ambassador to New Granada. He died in St. Louis in 1870.